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one, can you give insight into the tony blare's comments with george bush on the microphone? oh, assad is like honey? what were they talking about? they seemed to like him. >> i don't recall that one. i recall the explaytive. referring to the g8 meeting in 2006 when -- during the israel hezbollah war, and bush leaned over to blare and whatever he called him, he said, you know, if we request get syria to stop this, put a four letter explaytive there, that will calm the situation, and what was interesting about, you know, that comment, and bush did not like that after 2003, 2004 particularly, and i asked bashar about that comment, and i said, what do you think of that comment by bush caught on tape? again, half expecting him to say, oh, you know, typical this, typical all that sort of stuff, he said, i love it. i love it because that means they are thinking about me. they are worried about me. that is part of syria foreign policy is having some sort of leverage. it's a weak country military militarily. the leverage is through the support of hezbollah, iran, support of hamas and
one, can you give insight into the tony blare's comments with george bush on the microphone? oh, assad is like honey? what were they talking about? they seemed to like him. >> i don't recall that one. i recall the explaytive. referring to the g8 meeting in 2006 when -- during the israel hezbollah war, and bush leaned over to blare and whatever he called him, he said, you know, if we request get syria to stop this, put a four letter explaytive there, that will calm the situation, and what...
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. >> caller: why did george bush wants to sell parts and then sell to you guys before and? >> host: i don't know if you remember in 2004 the company wanted to buy a port in the united states to be a >> guest: i certainly remember that. >> guest: we've remember to privatizing and had several bids at the time and decided to keep it state-owned. >> guest: that is also true. the caller is referring to when there was a discussion locally about actually selling the port to the company that was foreign controlled and that came to a halt and i thought that was the right thing at the time. >> what does it mean that this is a state-owned entity versus having a private company? >> guest: it is run in the public good and you have to maximize short-term profits. we can look at the long term benefits over the agenda and that is one thing i am delighted we have not. we have to consider all but now it is in control of the quarterly dividend. >> i don't know if you know the answer to this is the court sustained by the revenues? >> 100% sustained by the revenue. it isn't receiving any operat
. >> caller: why did george bush wants to sell parts and then sell to you guys before and? >> host: i don't know if you remember in 2004 the company wanted to buy a port in the united states to be a >> guest: i certainly remember that. >> guest: we've remember to privatizing and had several bids at the time and decided to keep it state-owned. >> guest: that is also true. the caller is referring to when there was a discussion locally about actually selling the port...
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george w. bush unsigned a treaty. the nuclear treaty. the united states believes it's exceptional, meaning everybody except us. meaning that if other nations can be bound by treaties that's great. it restricts what they can do. since the united states considers itself to be the gawrn or -- gawrnter of freedom, security, et. cetera, they want to be believe they need to be able to do anything they want in order to, you know, keep us all the safe. >> host: what are the numbers now about land mines and since you have been involved how many have gone away. how much money is spent? who is selling them around the world? >> guest: goodness. i should looked it up. i haven't worked on the campaign on the daily basis since early 2000. i can tell you there are 161 nations that are part of the treaty. all of the western hemisphere, except the united states and cuba. all of nato, except the united states. which is totally mind boggling. especially when the u.s. said it needs land mines to protect the allies. there have been no no recorded fail of land
george w. bush unsigned a treaty. the nuclear treaty. the united states believes it's exceptional, meaning everybody except us. meaning that if other nations can be bound by treaties that's great. it restricts what they can do. since the united states considers itself to be the gawrn or -- gawrnter of freedom, security, et. cetera, they want to be believe they need to be able to do anything they want in order to, you know, keep us all the safe. >> host: what are the numbers now about land...
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george w. bush institute resale the series of discussions looking at immigrants contributions for america. this panel focuses on the economic effects of naturalization. from dallas, this is about one hour. >> a pleasure to be here. i worked for closed with president bush when he was in the white house trying to advance immigration reform in the last battle and so it's a pleasure for me to be back in his beautiful new house, talking about immigration. so thank you to this institute. i want to harken back as we get started to the ceremony that we saw this morning combat incredible moving ceremony because what we're going to talk about here today is not just out immigration is good for america, but have naturalization and citizenship actually even ups the ante and makes immigrants even more beneficial for the united states. to benefit themselves, but it's also a benefit for the country. so the very people we saw this morning when they came in the door, they were great for america but as they went
george w. bush institute resale the series of discussions looking at immigrants contributions for america. this panel focuses on the economic effects of naturalization. from dallas, this is about one hour. >> a pleasure to be here. i worked for closed with president bush when he was in the white house trying to advance immigration reform in the last battle and so it's a pleasure for me to be back in his beautiful new house, talking about immigration. so thank you to this institute. i want...
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c-span: do you think people would be surprised you voted for george bush in 1980? >> guest: i suppose so because i think the most surprised person would probably be president bush. write to what what you think you'd be surprised? >> guest: well i think most presidents get sensitive about the post and "newsweek" as well and he had his issues with us but i think any president does. but i suspect he would not think i voted for him. c-span: give us a thumbnail sketch of the post today. how many newspapers and television stations? how big is said and what is the revenue on a yearly basis? >> guest: we are about ad 1.6 million in annual revenues and the company holds mainly "the washington post" and we have a small newspaper the herald and half of the international "herald tribune" and may have "newsweek" and six television stations and 1.5 million cable connections, and we also have -- which is our medium of "the washington post" web site. c-span: are you still chairman of the executive committee? -- committee. >> guest: i am. c-span: how long were you chairman of "the
c-span: do you think people would be surprised you voted for george bush in 1980? >> guest: i suppose so because i think the most surprised person would probably be president bush. write to what what you think you'd be surprised? >> guest: well i think most presidents get sensitive about the post and "newsweek" as well and he had his issues with us but i think any president does. but i suspect he would not think i voted for him. c-span: give us a thumbnail sketch of the...
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. >> guest: i served under but george w. bush administration and was appointed by the transportation secretary norman. and as you may know, he is a democrat who served in the republican administration and he was responsible for offering and then congress passed a reorganization act that led to the creation of this agency. and this agency fmsa receives a million daily shipments of hazardous air, land, truck, and sea, dessel and pipeline. >> host: you're current work with the national transportation advisers, what is that? >> guest: i am a lawyer by training and we also have a consulting practice. so, we talk infrastructure projects, transportation projects to both public and private sector clients. >> host: is one of your clients keystone xl? is anybody supporting trans canada? >> guest: no, sir. >> host: as far as keystone xl is concerned, the decision that you were taking, where do you stand if it shouldn't be built on the extension we've been talking about? >> guest: i've been monitoring this for several years. when i was
. >> guest: i served under but george w. bush administration and was appointed by the transportation secretary norman. and as you may know, he is a democrat who served in the republican administration and he was responsible for offering and then congress passed a reorganization act that led to the creation of this agency. and this agency fmsa receives a million daily shipments of hazardous air, land, truck, and sea, dessel and pipeline. >> host: you're current work with the national...
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george w. bush had done that i think he would've been, we would've been heard cries of impatient. we had part of our immigration laws suspended by the president. there's just a variety of issues like that when he is gone outside. we have tension with our system, struggles between congress and the president. this one is very safe. i think you'll see it continue. but there will be legal cases. >> i'm going to try to bounce around a little bit but again we will get to everybody. >> i was a little concerned to find that you are not in support of making the continuing resolution contingent upon removing what optional spin you move on obamacare. i feel very strongly. i speak from a point of view -- [applause] >> i think they do, too. >> this is not theoretical for me because two weeks ago today my husband and i paid in cash for our son had major surgery. for our procedure. but, you know, what? that's a price i paid for the liberty of my children. i'm self-employed. i understand the consequent of that as i've limited options thanks our government on insurance. i understand that i paid fo
george w. bush had done that i think he would've been, we would've been heard cries of impatient. we had part of our immigration laws suspended by the president. there's just a variety of issues like that when he is gone outside. we have tension with our system, struggles between congress and the president. this one is very safe. i think you'll see it continue. but there will be legal cases. >> i'm going to try to bounce around a little bit but again we will get to everybody. >> i...
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think of president george h. w. bush, bush 41. a lot of people think he was our most accomplished foreign policy president over the last several decades. he had vast experience as a diplomat. he had face and diplomacy. he had cheated the unification of germany and nato after the end of the cold war. he didn't peacefully. decree the modern israeli-palestinian peace process in 1991. he overwhelmed saddam hussein by creating a great international coalition to surround and defeat saddam hussein after his ill-fated invasion of kuwait in 1991. think of president clinton who negotiated the nafta agreement to canada and mexico and the united states would see a rising tide lifts all boats through our economic union here in north america. i think of president george w. bush by the strategic insight to reach out to india, the largest democracy in the world, and establish a strategic partnership with india. all that happened through diplomacy, negotiation, through interaction between our country and those countries. when you think of it, whic
think of president george h. w. bush, bush 41. a lot of people think he was our most accomplished foreign policy president over the last several decades. he had vast experience as a diplomat. he had face and diplomacy. he had cheated the unification of germany and nato after the end of the cold war. he didn't peacefully. decree the modern israeli-palestinian peace process in 1991. he overwhelmed saddam hussein by creating a great international coalition to surround and defeat saddam hussein...
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but they never tried to impeach george bush. so think long and hard, and these things are difficult because it's always easy to say just try. what we're doing is not working. usually that means is we need to work harder. i'm old enough to of watched barry goldwater go down in flames. i hated it. took 16 years to get ronald reagan. but when we got ronald reagan, he changed america and the world. and ended the old soviet system. democracy is hard work. it's stuff like this can people going out and knocking on doors but its people going out and voting. when we do it, our system works, but it's hard work and his hard-working part because that's what the founders wanted it to be. they were very afraid of centralized powerful government. so they said we will make this difficult to do. we will put some power and the house of representatives with people. put power with the states over here. will have the president that for four years elected, we divide it up. there's no other system as complex as ours to work, to move to get things thro
but they never tried to impeach george bush. so think long and hard, and these things are difficult because it's always easy to say just try. what we're doing is not working. usually that means is we need to work harder. i'm old enough to of watched barry goldwater go down in flames. i hated it. took 16 years to get ronald reagan. but when we got ronald reagan, he changed america and the world. and ended the old soviet system. democracy is hard work. it's stuff like this can people going out...
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. >> caller: i wondered if you two guys know the reasoning behind why george bush wanted to sell the ports and did he contact beforehand? >> host: i think he is referring to, 2004 at the dubai company wanted to buy a port in the united states. >> guest: i certainly remember that. >> guest: we consider privatizing the ports here in norfolk. we had several bids but i think in the fullness of time i decided to keep it stayed on. >> host: what does that mean? >> guest: there was a reason i sent and the caller, that's also true. the color i believe is referring to when there was a discussion here locally about actually selling the port to a company that was foreign controlled and that came to a full hault. >> host: what does it mean to you guys that this is sustained sustained-state-owned entity versus a private company? >> guest: frankly is run in the public good and if it's privately-owned you have to maximize short-term profits. if its government-owned we can look at the long-term benefit to the commonwealth of virginia and i think that is the one thing i am delighted that we did not s
. >> caller: i wondered if you two guys know the reasoning behind why george bush wanted to sell the ports and did he contact beforehand? >> host: i think he is referring to, 2004 at the dubai company wanted to buy a port in the united states. >> guest: i certainly remember that. >> guest: we consider privatizing the ports here in norfolk. we had several bids but i think in the fullness of time i decided to keep it stayed on. >> host: what does that mean? >>...
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it's hosted by the george w. bush institute in dallas. >> thanks very much. one of the questions that came up at the end of the last session was about immigrants as human beings. one of the things i want to encourage all our panelists to talk about is their own human and personal experience. but to get to the point i want to move from a personal to the abstract for just one second. the book that i wrote that jim was kind enough to mention was about the experience of japanese-americans during world war ii. and i'm sure most of you know that after pearl harbor, over 100,000 japanese-americans were forcibly removed from their home and thrown into camp where they spent most of world war ii. that is, most of the three years after pearl harbor. as you can imagine, this was a huge dislocation to the japanese-american community. but the book i wrote was not about that. the book i wrote was about a much lesser known part of the story, which was out of that experience, a segregated unit of american soldiers called the 442, the 442nd regiment combat team, was formed out
it's hosted by the george w. bush institute in dallas. >> thanks very much. one of the questions that came up at the end of the last session was about immigrants as human beings. one of the things i want to encourage all our panelists to talk about is their own human and personal experience. but to get to the point i want to move from a personal to the abstract for just one second. the book that i wrote that jim was kind enough to mention was about the experience of japanese-americans...
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george bush blocked loans from the inter-american development foundation of 146 million loans for water, education, things like that. the international republican institute arranged and organized the opposition tool. then we, as a country, trained rebel soldiers in the dominican republic trained and armed them to come in to haiti to overthough the government. and the last analysis those rebels didn't figure in to it. bush carried out the coup himself when american soldiers arrived at the home of the president and took him off at 3:00 in the morning to the central africa republican. we had to go in. maxine waters, a jamaican parliament, the president's lawyer he said the minimum income ought to be raised from $1 a day to $2 a day. that the sweat shop owner, essentially white in haiti beginned with american authorities to get him thrown out of office. if you look at the history of american foreign aid, what we do and why we do it is not a pretty picture. >> host: in your most recent non-fiction book. you write in haiti's 200-year history one is hard put to identify a single episodes of or
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we george bush blocked loans from the inter-american development of foundation of 146 million. loans for water, education, things like that. the international republican institute arranged and organized the opposition to it. we as a country trained soldier in the dominican republic. trained and armed those rebels didn't figure in to it. the bush -- when the american soldiers arrived at the home of the president and took him off at 3:00 in the morning to the central african republican. we had to go there. maxine waters, a jamaican parliament tear, sharon hay webster, the president's lawyer flew off with a plane to rescue him and bring him back to jamaica and condoleezza rice threatened the jamie can government to make it very difficult for them. if jamaican accepted it. all because he said the minimum income ought to be raised from $1 a day to $2 a day. that the sweat shop owners essentially white in haiti combined with american authorities to get him thrown out of office. if you look at the history of american foreign aid. what we do and why we do it. it's not pretty picture. >
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in his prior life he is an attorney who worked in several capacities when george w. bush was the governor of texas they had a long affiliation and we are really delighted that he has developed such innovative and attractive materials to understand. i think it really does help the there's a lot of visual presentation of the lessons of iraq and the very complicated story of funding what didn't work so well and how we can do better the next time. so, we have invited stuart bowen to make his presentations first. we will then turn to jim schear who finished his second tour as assistant secretary with responsibility for the civility operations in his earlier career kube is a research scholar at the national defense university, director of research and works throughout his career on the questions of the stabilization and reconstruction including at the u.n. and some of the post cold war success stories in cambodia, the balkans and elsewhere. so how did stuart bowen, what kind of responses were there broadly in the pentagon in the interagency community and his own reflection
in his prior life he is an attorney who worked in several capacities when george w. bush was the governor of texas they had a long affiliation and we are really delighted that he has developed such innovative and attractive materials to understand. i think it really does help the there's a lot of visual presentation of the lessons of iraq and the very complicated story of funding what didn't work so well and how we can do better the next time. so, we have invited stuart bowen to make his...
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heart and compare it for us in modern history, current history for example contrasted with the way george w. bush took this nation to the war. >> if president bush took america to war quite quickly and didn't nurture a bipartisan consensus in some ways he used it around for the hid. ki wasn't able to persuade other countries, many other countries with the exception of britain and a few others that it was worth fighting and so america more or less went in to hit by himself. the book tells the story of an incredible effort over the course of two years to build a domestic consensus in favor of internationalism and ultimately intervention and he was prepared to use other countries as proxy's by allowing the brits and the french. he was prepared to take this kind and roosevelt was criticized almost as much he felt he was going too fast. he felt he was going too slowly. he did it carefully and slowly. that is the reaction to the events and get. when you step back and look at the whole run there is a direction as kurt says he knew where he wanted to end up but he wanted to do it in a way that to
heart and compare it for us in modern history, current history for example contrasted with the way george w. bush took this nation to the war. >> if president bush took america to war quite quickly and didn't nurture a bipartisan consensus in some ways he used it around for the hid. ki wasn't able to persuade other countries, many other countries with the exception of britain and a few others that it was worth fighting and so america more or less went in to hit by himself. the book tells...
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george bush then finally partially declass fried it, and i learned for the first time to my extreme dismay that in the first three and a half years of this program which was developed by the bush administration, the president had used his article ii authorities. he's the commander in chief, to run the program rather than the provisions of law, fisa, which congress enacted in 1978 -- a fact you ought to all know. the foreign intelligence surveillance act was passed in 1978 in response to the abuses of the nixon administration and a recommendation of the church commission, and it set up a careful system of a fisa court composed of federal judges and intelligence committees on the hill which were set up then to monitor these fisa applications. and it worked very well, in my view, through 2011 -- 2001, and then the bush administration yanked it and ran it a different way. congress after that pulled it back under fisa, and i think, i believe strongly that maybe the amount of metadata is excessive. i'm sure my buddy here anthony thinks this, and that ought to be debated. and maybe the program sh
george bush then finally partially declass fried it, and i learned for the first time to my extreme dismay that in the first three and a half years of this program which was developed by the bush administration, the president had used his article ii authorities. he's the commander in chief, to run the program rather than the provisions of law, fisa, which congress enacted in 1978 -- a fact you ought to all know. the foreign intelligence surveillance act was passed in 1978 in response to the...
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bush but that glory is fleeting because they are in an untenable situation where their success is an immediate unfavorable referendum that everybody before them, do they have certain personality qualities and ambitions and visions that make them suspect by their peers. sort of like this 19th century western figure that we see in 20th century films where it's high noon, ethan edwards, the magnificent seven, the man is shot liberty balance. we bring these people in and they are suspect figures and we all want shane to do something to get rid of the -- but it's better he walks out the door. it's better that high noon will kaine takes the bag and throws it down and says i've had enough. whether we like it or not it didn't end very well. themistocles committed suicide in persia. belisarius ended up as a beggar on the streets of constantinople humiliated at his emperor. sherman was called crazy and called a terrorist. he spent most of his post-war career trying to defend what it in a very effective way but he wasn't popular like grant or matthew ridgway. he was not made chairman of the joi
bush but that glory is fleeting because they are in an untenable situation where their success is an immediate unfavorable referendum that everybody before them, do they have certain personality qualities and ambitions and visions that make them suspect by their peers. sort of like this 19th century western figure that we see in 20th century films where it's high noon, ethan edwards, the magnificent seven, the man is shot liberty balance. we bring these people in and they are suspect figures...
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i had the opportunity a week and a half ago or so to be at the george bush library for a naturalization ceremony when president bush also talked about the benefits of immigration reform. and being at the naturalization ceremony reminded me that there's a thing that's unique about this country, which is that you don't become an american by virtue of your race or ethnicity. you become an american by virtue of your willingness to buy into certain kinds of principles, certain kinds of notions of liberty, of equality, of citizenship. and that is fundamentally what's protected by making sure that citizenship is an important part of the immigration reform. this, i think, is something that we have to be insistent on as part of what comes out of the immigrationing reform process. immigration reform process. >> thank you very much. mr. vargas, you -- on panel you're the person who can make this come to life because you're in the situation of being not just a legal permanent resident hoping to have citizenship, you actually are an undocumented worker and resident of the united states. tell us abou
i had the opportunity a week and a half ago or so to be at the george bush library for a naturalization ceremony when president bush also talked about the benefits of immigration reform. and being at the naturalization ceremony reminded me that there's a thing that's unique about this country, which is that you don't become an american by virtue of your race or ethnicity. you become an american by virtue of your willingness to buy into certain kinds of principles, certain kinds of notions of...
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they appealed to president george h.w. bush at the time. they appealed to the u.n. someone to stop the slaughter. they will march to this treats free tracing the steps of the funeral two weeks before. some putting their hands up in the thee sign shouting viva sebastian. thousands from work school and home and they march to the santa cruz cemetery. when we got there we were interviewing people. why are you risking your life to do this and they would say for my mother, for my father, for my village that was wiped out and from the direction the procession had come we saw hundreds of indignation soldiers carrying their u.s. m-16s in the ready position marching up to the crowd. 90% of the weapons used were from the united states. the indonesian army was arms trained and financed by the united states and on this day was no different. the soldiers marched 10 to 12 abreast. allen and i were interviewing people in the middle of the crowd and allen suggested we walk to the front of the crowd. we knew the indonesian military had committed many massacres they had never done it
they appealed to president george h.w. bush at the time. they appealed to the u.n. someone to stop the slaughter. they will march to this treats free tracing the steps of the funeral two weeks before. some putting their hands up in the thee sign shouting viva sebastian. thousands from work school and home and they march to the santa cruz cemetery. when we got there we were interviewing people. why are you risking your life to do this and they would say for my mother, for my father, for my...
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he was appointed by president george w. bush. most recently, just for the record also, the governor has joined the bipartisan policy center as a senior advisor, and we welcome him very much year to our organization. governor, the budget for hhs when you took over in 2001 was about $380 billion, by my record here, and along with social security, the administration then, that was the largest and is the largest still today of the domestic agencies. when you left at the end of 2004, it had grown $200 billion to over $580 billion agencies -- $580 billion agency. during her tenure, you hit with a slew of emergencies. anthrax, post-911, concerns over bioterrorism, avian flu, and the need to stockpile smallpox vaccines. but you also cleared a backlog of waivers and state plans to help expand health insurance coverage to low-income americans. so when i look at your budget, i know we're supposed to talk about constrained budgets, but one might conclude you have no budget constraints on your agency. i kind of doubt that, but omb and gary an
he was appointed by president george w. bush. most recently, just for the record also, the governor has joined the bipartisan policy center as a senior advisor, and we welcome him very much year to our organization. governor, the budget for hhs when you took over in 2001 was about $380 billion, by my record here, and along with social security, the administration then, that was the largest and is the largest still today of the domestic agencies. when you left at the end of 2004, it had grown...
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from the george w. bush presidential center in dallas, this is 40 minutes. [applause] >> thank you, mr. secretary, for the kind introduction. i don't know if you can see me, this is a rather large podium. [laughter] it reminds me of what i frequently tell my washington colleagues, everything's bigger in texas but me. [laughter] if you can't see me, at least you can hear me. anyway, i was delighted to accept the invitation to speak before the bipartisan policy center for a couple of reasons. number one, because of the outstanding work that you have done in the housing arena and, number two, i live about three miles from here, so it took me about seven minutes to get here. anyway, the truth is as a fairly new chairman of standing committee of congress, if the truth be known, i have a number of speaking invitations that come my way. a lot of press that's interested in speaking to me, but i assure you, i do not have to work to remain humble. but because i have a lot of speaking invitations, i accept a lot of them. and at this home about three miles are here, abo
from the george w. bush presidential center in dallas, this is 40 minutes. [applause] >> thank you, mr. secretary, for the kind introduction. i don't know if you can see me, this is a rather large podium. [laughter] it reminds me of what i frequently tell my washington colleagues, everything's bigger in texas but me. [laughter] if you can't see me, at least you can hear me. anyway, i was delighted to accept the invitation to speak before the bipartisan policy center for a couple of...
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they were attacking dick cheney, attacking george bush with, attacking the fbi and others, nsa had pretty much been unscathed in all this. the only time it really came up as a matter of debate in the intelligence committee was people from the nsa coming forward and saying what a rough time they were having with the fisa court, how hard it was for them to get court orders, how hard it was to be able to follow up on the information they were getting. this is not a rubber stamp. this is constantly scrutinized. it's also scrutinized by the house and senate intelligence committees. i worry saying congress is keeping an eye on it for you isn't exactly a vote of confidence. but, seriously, people on the intelligence committee take it very seriously. i can tell you that this stuff is looked at very, very carefully. so i think we have to keep all of this in mind. i don't see any significant violation of civil liberties. i don't see any significant -- to me, if we have a balanced thought like with zazi in 2009, zazi, and this is one of those forest gump moments where you happen to be at a location.
they were attacking dick cheney, attacking george bush with, attacking the fbi and others, nsa had pretty much been unscathed in all this. the only time it really came up as a matter of debate in the intelligence committee was people from the nsa coming forward and saying what a rough time they were having with the fisa court, how hard it was for them to get court orders, how hard it was to be able to follow up on the information they were getting. this is not a rubber stamp. this is constantly...
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george w. bush didn't run for president carried back to the 2008 campaign literature he didn't run promising a defense buildup and he wasn't intending to make foreign policy the center of his foreign policy than he wound up making as we know one of the most hardest decisions in history about the war of choice in iraq. so i don't think that cutting our military is going to be the best way to keep us out of trouble in the south china sea. i want steadiness and results and sustain the balance. that means we can make the economies and defense but not cuts like sequestration. >> mackenzie, you're concluding thoughts? >> i think that was very good. there isn't much to add except i wouldn't put all my eggs in one basket is basically the summary. all i want peace through strength or a modern day version of it, because i want a military that the tours. talking on the military front i want all those other things, too. i want strong allies, i want our partners capacity to be robust enough to defend themse
george w. bush didn't run for president carried back to the 2008 campaign literature he didn't run promising a defense buildup and he wasn't intending to make foreign policy the center of his foreign policy than he wound up making as we know one of the most hardest decisions in history about the war of choice in iraq. so i don't think that cutting our military is going to be the best way to keep us out of trouble in the south china sea. i want steadiness and results and sustain the balance....
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bush. because i don't know exactly the reason. but i saw, for example, the other day that the national security adviser went to moscow to meet with putin and started ranging that relationship. if i was secretary of state, i would not tolerate that. that's my job. and the national security adviser's a staff person, not a principal. i remember when colin powell got the job of secretary of national security adviser, he understood. and he came around to me, and he said i'm a member of your staff. obviously, the president's my main guide, but with my job is to staff the could be is ill. the council. and so i think that's beginning to get out of kilter, and in my book i have quite a lot to say about the structure of governance and how it's going, i think, in the wrong direction. >> host: secretary schultz, a couple more issues on your mind. number one, demographics. you're worried about demographics. >> guest: oh, i'm not worried about it, i'm observant of it. i see that the demographics of the w
bush. because i don't know exactly the reason. but i saw, for example, the other day that the national security adviser went to moscow to meet with putin and started ranging that relationship. if i was secretary of state, i would not tolerate that. that's my job. and the national security adviser's a staff person, not a principal. i remember when colin powell got the job of secretary of national security adviser, he understood. and he came around to me, and he said i'm a member of your staff....
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bush. i expense them, and he did, too. he goes back to the thing we kind of started out with, is the federal government is out of control. but it's been predicted by all the historians that our republic will fail. so the question is how do we cheat history? how do we go back? how do we really base -- we embrace the things that made america great. as i said earlier i think we have to get in charge. i've been working for nine years to try to make a big difference. i have made a small difference, not a bi big difference. by me, i've worked every day trying to do things. that i'm convinced the only way we do that is the states exert their tenth amendment authority and start reassessing -- [applause] changes to the constitution that restore federalism and a constitutional republic. and so i think that's the way. you are frustrated. you ought to see me in washington. asked by staff. i want people -- ask my wife. i want to pull my hair out. you know, i see it into things. one is, i see the constit
bush. i expense them, and he did, too. he goes back to the thing we kind of started out with, is the federal government is out of control. but it's been predicted by all the historians that our republic will fail. so the question is how do we cheat history? how do we go back? how do we really base -- we embrace the things that made america great. as i said earlier i think we have to get in charge. i've been working for nine years to try to make a big difference. i have made a small difference,...
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if george w. bush had done that i think we would have an impeachment. part of our immigration laws unilaterally suspended by the president when the year before a city could not do that. you know, just a variety of issues like that worry is going outside. you know, we have to engine oil and gas -- system, starred as between congress and the president. at think you will see it continue. but there will be legal cases. all the way back here. i'm going to try and bounce around a little bit. again, we will get to everybody. we will where wells legs out. >> i am a little concerned to find out you were not in support of making the continuing resolution contingent upon removing what optional spending you can. >> i feel very strongly. at think others do. i speak from appointed you -- [applause] >> i think they do, to. >> this is not theoretical for me because two weeks ago today by has been denied paid in cash for our son to have major surgery, 4-hour procedure. that is the price i pay for the liberty of my children. i'm self-employed. anniston the consequence of
if george w. bush had done that i think we would have an impeachment. part of our immigration laws unilaterally suspended by the president when the year before a city could not do that. you know, just a variety of issues like that worry is going outside. you know, we have to engine oil and gas -- system, starred as between congress and the president. at think you will see it continue. but there will be legal cases. all the way back here. i'm going to try and bounce around a little bit. again,...
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if george w. bush would have done that we would have had impeachment. we have part of our laws unilaterally suspended by the president by the year before he said he couldn't do that. there is just a variety of issues like that where he has gone outside. we have tension within our system and struggles facing congress and the president but this one is very serious. i think you will see it continue that there will be legal cases. all the way back here. i'm going to try to bounce around a little bit but again we will get to everybody. we are going to wear willful excel. >> thank you. i was concerned to find out you were not in support of making the continuing resolution contention upon removing what optional spending you can remove on obamacare. i feel strongly and i think others do and i speak from a point -- [applause] this is not theoretical for me because two weeks ago today my husband and i paid in cash for her son to have major surgery a four-hour procedure but that is the price i pay for the liberty of my children. i am self-employed and understand t
if george w. bush would have done that we would have had impeachment. we have part of our laws unilaterally suspended by the president by the year before he said he couldn't do that. there is just a variety of issues like that where he has gone outside. we have tension within our system and struggles facing congress and the president but this one is very serious. i think you will see it continue that there will be legal cases. all the way back here. i'm going to try to bounce around a little...
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bush and principal deputy press secretary. and john verrico, president-elect of the national association of government communicators. so starting with carolyn, let's hear what you have to say, give us your overview of the subject. >> i'm going to tell you about a couple surveys i've conducted this year, and the previous year. that are relevant to the topic we're discussing tonight. first, i surveyed reporters who cover federal agencies here in washington. i've got 146 respondents within margin of error of about 7%. then i surveyed current and former members of the national association of government communicate is, at 154 responses from a margin of error of about 4.3%. i'm going to throw some numbers at you but i want to quantify the situation. my questions focus on the indie thing process. for someone to talk about preapproval and routing. 98% of public affairs officers believe that they have a better idea than reporters about who in the agencies would be the best person to give an interview on a given topic. three quarters of
bush and principal deputy press secretary. and john verrico, president-elect of the national association of government communicators. so starting with carolyn, let's hear what you have to say, give us your overview of the subject. >> i'm going to tell you about a couple surveys i've conducted this year, and the previous year. that are relevant to the topic we're discussing tonight. first, i surveyed reporters who cover federal agencies here in washington. i've got 146 respondents within...
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he was appointed by president george w. bush. most recently for the record the governor joined the bipartisan policy center here as a senior adviser and we welcome him very much to the organization. governor, the budget when you took over in 2001 was about $380 billion is my record here. along with social security the was the largest and is the largest still today of the domestic agency. when you left at the end of 2004 it had grown $200 billion to over 580 billion-dollar agency. during your tenure you were hit with a slew of emergencies, anthrax, post 911, concerns over bioterrorism, the flu and the need to stockpile the smallpox vaccine. you also cleared up the plans to expand health insurance coveragn so when i look at your budget i know we are supposed to talk about constrained budgets but one might conclude you had no budget constraints on your agency but omb and barry anderson gave you a budget tie line. how did you go about and did the congress and particularly place restraints under congressional a budget that you hadn't
he was appointed by president george w. bush. most recently for the record the governor joined the bipartisan policy center here as a senior adviser and we welcome him very much to the organization. governor, the budget when you took over in 2001 was about $380 billion is my record here. along with social security the was the largest and is the largest still today of the domestic agency. when you left at the end of 2004 it had grown $200 billion to over 580 billion-dollar agency. during your...
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and update, former president george w. bush has successfully undergone a heart procedure after doctors discovered a blockage in an artery. a bush spokesman said a stent was inserted. the blockage was discovered yesterday during mr. bush's annual physical. the spokesman said the blockage was open with no complication, and that the 67 year old bush is expected to be discharged tomorrow. while we wait for the next session, a daylong discussion on protecting the nation's electric grid. we'll hear from nsa and cia director, former nsa and cia director michael hayden. he spoke to the group today about cybersecurity and challenges facing industry and how much protection expect to get from the government. >> well, good morning, and thanks to have a chance to chat with you today. i will try to limit my transmission of your to about 20 minutes or so and then leave about 15 minutes for any questions or comments that yo have. as suggested, my purpose here's what my army buddies used to call a briefing with a big hand and the little mo
and update, former president george w. bush has successfully undergone a heart procedure after doctors discovered a blockage in an artery. a bush spokesman said a stent was inserted. the blockage was discovered yesterday during mr. bush's annual physical. the spokesman said the blockage was open with no complication, and that the 67 year old bush is expected to be discharged tomorrow. while we wait for the next session, a daylong discussion on protecting the nation's electric grid. we'll hear...
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if this had been george bush and you had a republican, there would not have -- candy crowley, the way she answered herself to jump to the president's defense in that third debate or second debate was so inappropriate. it went beyond the pale. and i really don't believe that if that was a republican incumbent she would have jumped in like that. going back to the 2008 campaign the president's relationship with the rev. jeremiah right, is rare print for 20 years, obama belonged to is church. he had incendiaries sermons that he gave. he baptizes children, married -- de presided over the marriage between president obama and michele. and that really got scant attention by the mainstream media. these were all full sermons that he gave saying that basically americans deserve what they have i won't repeat a lot of the awful things that the reference said. but also really the president's failed record in his first term. the media did not hold the president accountable. when the president said, if i can't get the job done in four years i should be a one-term president. if he said that, why haven
if this had been george bush and you had a republican, there would not have -- candy crowley, the way she answered herself to jump to the president's defense in that third debate or second debate was so inappropriate. it went beyond the pale. and i really don't believe that if that was a republican incumbent she would have jumped in like that. going back to the 2008 campaign the president's relationship with the rev. jeremiah right, is rare print for 20 years, obama belonged to is church. he...
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bush. that was the author of more than 24 books including two "new york times" number one bestsellers and a host of bill bennett's morning in america has received more than three honorary degrees bill and i were philosophy students together to bill will speak in a minute and he will be followed by david wilezol the co-author of kathleen tighe. david is the associate producer of the ashley syndicated bill bennett's morning in america contributor to mining the campus a policy blog. in his honor i tried to come up with an opiate let end quote addressing student debt and i suggest -- that is happy is he who has no debt. [laughter] >> that's good. [laughter] we look forward to your presentation of this provocative book. bill welcome to the aei podium. [applause] >> thank you alex. we were in the same class in williams college with the same major. were it not from the honor system we had final exams and we had saturday classes. remember that? that's how old we are. i won't describe the book. i wi
bush. that was the author of more than 24 books including two "new york times" number one bestsellers and a host of bill bennett's morning in america has received more than three honorary degrees bill and i were philosophy students together to bill will speak in a minute and he will be followed by david wilezol the co-author of kathleen tighe. david is the associate producer of the ashley syndicated bill bennett's morning in america contributor to mining the campus a policy blog. in...
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bush. i've had, i had a chance to work with him, incredible leader, an incredible human being who has given so much back to the community. as president of the united states, but as former president of the united states. so i am honored to stand in for him today. he apologizes, but -- [laughter] we've been talking a lot about work force and whether we have the right people in lace to provide the services -- in place to provide the services. you're the front line. you're the absolute front line. and for people to be able to get quality, affordable health care, they have to be able to come through that door and be accepted and have confidence that they're going to be treated with the care that they expect. and you have provided that. and you have done that as a volunteer. which is just remarkable from the point of view of if we could clone you and have you throughout -- [laughter] it would make life a lot easier. we've talked a lot also about how do you get people into the system, and you pers
bush. i've had, i had a chance to work with him, incredible leader, an incredible human being who has given so much back to the community. as president of the united states, but as former president of the united states. so i am honored to stand in for him today. he apologizes, but -- [laughter] we've been talking a lot about work force and whether we have the right people in lace to provide the services -- in place to provide the services. you're the front line. you're the absolute front line....
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had george w. bush had done that i think we would have heard cries of impeachment. we are part of our immigration laws, and i was suspended by the president when the year before he said he couldn't do that. there's just a variety of issues like that when he's gone outside. we have to tension with our system, struggles between congress and the president, but this one is very cities. you will see it continue. but there will be legal cases. all the way back. i'm going to try to bounce around all of it. it begin, we will get to everybody. >> i was a little concerned to find that you are not in support of making the continuing resolution contingent upon removing what optional spending you can remove on obamacare. i feel very strongly. i think the other speaker i speak from my point of view -- applaud not this is not theoretical because two weeks ago today my husband and i paid in cash for our son to have major surgery. a four-hour procedure. that's the price i pay for the liberty of my children. i'm self-employed. i understand the consequence of that as i've limited opti
had george w. bush had done that i think we would have heard cries of impeachment. we are part of our immigration laws, and i was suspended by the president when the year before he said he couldn't do that. there's just a variety of issues like that when he's gone outside. we have to tension with our system, struggles between congress and the president, but this one is very cities. you will see it continue. but there will be legal cases. all the way back. i'm going to try to bounce around all...
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bush and principal deputy press secretary. and john verrico, president-elect of the national association of government communicators. so starting with carolyn, let's hear what you have to say, just give us your overview of the subject. >> i'm going to tell you about a couple surveys i've conducted this year and the previous year. that are relevant to the topic we're discussing tonight. first, i surveyed reporters who cover federal agencies here in washington. i've got 146 respondents within margin of error of about 7%. then i surveyed current and former members of the national association of government communicators, about 154 responses for a margin of error of about 4.3%. i'm going to throw some numbers at you but i want to quantify the situation. my questions focus on the interviewing process. first, i want to talk about preapproval and routing. 98% of public affairs officers believe that they have a better idea than reporters about who in their agencies would be the best person to give an interview on a given topic. three q
bush and principal deputy press secretary. and john verrico, president-elect of the national association of government communicators. so starting with carolyn, let's hear what you have to say, just give us your overview of the subject. >> i'm going to tell you about a couple surveys i've conducted this year and the previous year. that are relevant to the topic we're discussing tonight. first, i surveyed reporters who cover federal agencies here in washington. i've got 146 respondents...
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under george w. bush we expanded the prescription drug part d. i opposed that. i opposed it because there was not a governmental plan available. i thought we should -- there was not universal pricing which i thought would bring down the costs dramatically. i think i'm right about both of those points, by the way. but the day after it was passed, i worked to make sure it was implemented as best we could. we worked together to make it work. and we're not seeing that on the affordable care act. we're seeing almost just a political isolation of this issue just calling it politics rather than trying to make it work the best that you can and seeking changes that you think should be changed. so i'm hoping that we can get to that point, and we can get the resources necessary to make sure this law is implemented fairly. because you're absolutely correct. it's not going to be a one-year implementation of the personal mandate. it's going to take a long time. it's going to take years. we know that. we also don't know what type of group will enroll in the first year. it migh
under george w. bush we expanded the prescription drug part d. i opposed that. i opposed it because there was not a governmental plan available. i thought we should -- there was not universal pricing which i thought would bring down the costs dramatically. i think i'm right about both of those points, by the way. but the day after it was passed, i worked to make sure it was implemented as best we could. we worked together to make it work. and we're not seeing that on the affordable care act....
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he worked in several capacities when george w. bush was the founder of texas. the halon affiliation and they were delighted that stuart bowen has developed such innovative and attractive materials to understand. i think it really is held that there's a lot of visual presentation of lessons and iraq and the very complicated story of funding what didn't work very well. and how we can do betterh next te. we have invited stuart bowen to meet his presentations first. we will then turn to jim schear, who has recently finished his second tour of the pentagon as an assistant secretary for responsibility for stability operations in his earlier career he was a research scholar at the national defense university, director of research there and worked throughout his career on these questions of stabilization and reconstruction including at the u.n. and some of its early post of war success stories in cambodia, the balkans and elsewhere. so how did stuart bowen ideas, what kind of responses were there more broadly in the pentagon and the interagency community and his own re
he worked in several capacities when george w. bush was the founder of texas. the halon affiliation and they were delighted that stuart bowen has developed such innovative and attractive materials to understand. i think it really is held that there's a lot of visual presentation of lessons and iraq and the very complicated story of funding what didn't work very well. and how we can do betterh next te. we have invited stuart bowen to meet his presentations first. we will then turn to jim schear,...
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they appeal to president george h.w. bush, and appealed to the eun, and marched through the streets, retracing the steps of the funeral two weeks before. some putting their hands up in the v sign-chanting, viva east timor, viva independence, incredibly brave. and i that marched from schools and home and march to the santa cruz cemetery. when we got there we were interviewing people. why are you risking your life to do this? and they would say, for my mother. for my father. for my village. it was wiped out. and then from the direction the procession has come we saw hundreds of indonesian soldiers carrying their u.s. m-16s at the ready position marching up on the crowd. 90% of the weapons used were from the united states. the army was armed, trained and financed be the united states. and in this day it was no different. the soldiers marched up ten to 12 abreast. alan and i were interviewing people in the middle of the crowd. and allen suggest we walk to the front of the crowd, because we knew that the indonesian military c
they appeal to president george h.w. bush, and appealed to the eun, and marched through the streets, retracing the steps of the funeral two weeks before. some putting their hands up in the v sign-chanting, viva east timor, viva independence, incredibly brave. and i that marched from schools and home and march to the santa cruz cemetery. when we got there we were interviewing people. why are you risking your life to do this? and they would say, for my mother. for my father. for my village. it...
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bush hated in the muslim world. despite his speech in cairo, despite his efforts to close guantanamo, despite his elimination of the use of the term war on terror, al qaeda continues to hate america. and even as i speak to you here today, they continue to plan attacks against america here and around the world. the president's not alone in failing to confront these threats. i'm afraid because of the success we've had in preventing another attack on the scale of 9/11, some of our leaders in both parties have been lulled into a sense of false security. i certainly support the privacy rights and expectations of all americans. but my colleagues, i also know for a fact that the surveillance programs that our government used have prevented attacks and saved american lives. i think it's a mistake to dismiss privacy concerns as crazy. after all, we have a government whose tax collecting agency targeted americans because of their political views. but it's also a mistake to exaggerate them. after all, if a known terrorist is e
bush hated in the muslim world. despite his speech in cairo, despite his efforts to close guantanamo, despite his elimination of the use of the term war on terror, al qaeda continues to hate america. and even as i speak to you here today, they continue to plan attacks against america here and around the world. the president's not alone in failing to confront these threats. i'm afraid because of the success we've had in preventing another attack on the scale of 9/11, some of our leaders in both...
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bush. but they are in these and untenable situation with the success is the unfavorable referendum because yet they have certain personality qualities and visions that make them suspect by their peers like the 19th century western that we see whether high noon, ethan edwards magnificence 73 bring the people in and they are suspect figures. we want them to get rid of the cattlemen but it is better than everyone or that they take the badge so whether real like it or not it did not and very well with themistocles ends with suicide 20 years later and tell sorus ended up the popular tradition ended up as dave we were trying to defend what he did but was not popular. for rescue ridgway was not made chairman of the joint chiefs and eisenhower he said. >> host: did not take thistles. was not ridgway but van fleet w. was not in the theater but he got involved with material controversy so finished the manuscript the petite blonde as she did have problems but these are controversial a and after the si
bush. but they are in these and untenable situation with the success is the unfavorable referendum because yet they have certain personality qualities and visions that make them suspect by their peers like the 19th century western that we see whether high noon, ethan edwards magnificence 73 bring the people in and they are suspect figures. we want them to get rid of the cattlemen but it is better than everyone or that they take the badge so whether real like it or not it did not and very well...